OKAY NOW THAT THAT ICON POST OF DOOM AND WOE IS DONE WITH I CAN COMMENT. I like it when you post about comics, I feel less out of my depth. Anyway, as of the cancellation of Blue Beetle, I'm not actively reading any DC. I'll pick up Wonder Woman once in a while if I have to top off my order (my shop has a stupid policy that you have to spend x amount before you can use your credit card and I never remember to pick up cash), but that's it.
I had been thinking about Black Canary/Green Arrow... and I guess this answers my question. That cover art leaves me wondering if the artist has ever seen a HUMAN BEING, much less a woman. Once in a while I'll come across something like this and go "I CAN DO THAT, WHY CAN'T I HAVE A JOB IN COMICS?" and then I remember I have zero networking skills and a uterus, and move on. Without having read anything in the book and only having a passing familiarity with the characters, it's interesting to me that Canary's hitting Ollie. Is it at all addressed within the context of the story as domestic violence? Or is it not taken seriously because she's a woman? I mean, my God, Hank Pym hit Jan under mind control and we're all still obsessing over it two decades later.
I also adore the cover for Oracle. I've been thinking a lot recently about how lesbians and bisexual women respond to things aimed at the male gaze, it's a very tricky question but an interesting one. Although, admittedly in my case, it mostly boils down to "BOOBIES." Because I am twelve.
If Babs gets out of the chair, I will be massively upset. Not only will it undo most of what I loved about Birds of Prey, it will take away one of the very few non-able-bodied heroes in comics and put her back in the Bat's shadow. She's an independent woman who's done well for herself and by herself. I'm waiting to see if she stays that way before I put any money into it, because if we're going to turn back the character-development plot for Babs I'll give a big fat "NO THANKS."
You know Beetle is being brought back as a second feature in Booster Gold? I'm not sure whether the page counts have been confirmed yet, but since the marginal costs of extra pages are pretty minimal, and it's intended to recompense people for a price hike to $3.99, I'm expecting 8-10 pages, maybe more.
And wasn't Pym hitting Janet during the breakdown which came between his brainwashing by Ultron and his manipulation by Egghead? On top of which, frankly I have little sympathy for anything Pym tries to blame on Ultron given he made Ultron.
And you might be right, my memory is a little fuzzy at the moment. But, still, it happened a long time ago, once, and both Hank and Jan dealt with it. WHY is it -- rather than, I don't know, building Ultron -- still Hank's defining flaw?
This was brought up - by Janet herself, as it happens - in the opening storyline of Mighty Avengers, and was part of a pretty good refocus of Pym's character over the past few years, whereby hitting Janet is but one part of the overall mountain of loserdom that is Hank Pym. Other 'highlights' include the Skrulls impersonating him repeatedly killing themselves because they couldn't bear to be him, the bit where he gets into a pissing contest over their relative IQs with a teenage boy, and the part where he's now hooked up with a robot who has his dead wife's brain patterns and sometimes impersonates her. Classy.
It is not taken seriously because she's a woman. Seriously, this has happened twice in the last month. In this issue, it's because he tased her and left her unconscious in order to confront Merlyn, which... OK. In JLA, she summoned Hal and Ollie into the Trinity's secret room in the JLAHQ in order to deck him in front of GL.
Neither of which, IMO is acceptable because Dinah just doesn't have a violent temper like that. She's the powerful one in the relationship, she can kill a man with her bare hands, win a fight in a few seconds, has been trained her entire life in martial arts which are about self control &c &c; she has never lost her temper and responded with violence. So why is she suddenly beating up her husband? Because that's what women do when they're angry.
I think there's an overlap between the mainstream 'male gaze' and what lesbians/bisexual women find attractive, but I know that a lot of men don't respond to supposedly 'sexy' images, so I think the mainstream image of what's sexy doesn't necessarily coincide with what's copnsidered sexy by most real people. Still, finding lesbian-centric eye candy blogs like Dorothy Snarker was quite the revelation.
I had been thinking about Black Canary/Green Arrow... and I guess this answers my question. That cover art leaves me wondering if the artist has ever seen a HUMAN BEING, much less a woman. Once in a while I'll come across something like this and go "I CAN DO THAT, WHY CAN'T I HAVE A JOB IN COMICS?" and then I remember I have zero networking skills and a uterus, and move on. Without having read anything in the book and only having a passing familiarity with the characters, it's interesting to me that Canary's hitting Ollie. Is it at all addressed within the context of the story as domestic violence? Or is it not taken seriously because she's a woman? I mean, my God, Hank Pym hit Jan under mind control and we're all still obsessing over it two decades later.
I also adore the cover for Oracle. I've been thinking a lot recently about how lesbians and bisexual women respond to things aimed at the male gaze, it's a very tricky question but an interesting one. Although, admittedly in my case, it mostly boils down to "BOOBIES." Because I am twelve.
If Babs gets out of the chair, I will be massively upset. Not only will it undo most of what I loved about Birds of Prey, it will take away one of the very few non-able-bodied heroes in comics and put her back in the Bat's shadow. She's an independent woman who's done well for herself and by herself. I'm waiting to see if she stays that way before I put any money into it, because if we're going to turn back the character-development plot for Babs I'll give a big fat "NO THANKS."
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And wasn't Pym hitting Janet during the breakdown which came between his brainwashing by Ultron and his manipulation by Egghead? On top of which, frankly I have little sympathy for anything Pym tries to blame on Ultron given he made Ultron.
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And you might be right, my memory is a little fuzzy at the moment. But, still, it happened a long time ago, once, and both Hank and Jan dealt with it. WHY is it -- rather than, I don't know, building Ultron -- still Hank's defining flaw?
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Neither of which, IMO is acceptable because Dinah just doesn't have a violent temper like that. She's the powerful one in the relationship, she can kill a man with her bare hands, win a fight in a few seconds, has been trained her entire life in martial arts which are about self control &c &c; she has never lost her temper and responded with violence. So why is she suddenly beating up her husband? Because that's what women do when they're angry.
I think there's an overlap between the mainstream 'male gaze' and what lesbians/bisexual women find attractive, but I know that a lot of men don't respond to supposedly 'sexy' images, so I think the mainstream image of what's sexy doesn't necessarily coincide with what's copnsidered sexy by most real people. Still, finding lesbian-centric eye candy blogs like Dorothy Snarker was quite the revelation.
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